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Neato Robotic’s Botvac is no longer the only robot vacuum cleaner capable of mapping the rooms it’s assigned to clean. iRobot’s new Roomba 980 can now accomplish the same feat, albeit in a slightly ...

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Show of hands: Who likes to vacuum? I'm not raising my hand either. That's why robotic vacuum cleaners have been the stuff of slacker dreams ever since iRobot unleashed the first Roomba more than a ...

I’ve been running robot vacuums in my home for years, and I’ve come to accept certain limitations as a given. For example, until I supplement the robot’s work with a good cleaning from a cordless ...